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...poet, that he mentions his having heard "Faust" but once, or he might be accused of plagiarism. And yet "Manfred" is not an English idea; its conception is foreign to the spirit of English poetry, and like "Werner," which we know to be an imitation, shows its German origin. Manfred has, like Faust, control over the spirit-world; like Faust, he summons them to do his bidding; but their efforts are of no avail to destroy the deep-rooted despair with which he is possessed, the horror of the world, or more especially of human kind, which masters...
...general history of the College, giving its origin and tracing its development from its foundation up to the present time, will form an introductory chapter. There will also be separate histories of each of the buildings, - telling when, by whom, or how they were founded, describing the changes they have undergone, and, in short, noticing all the interesting associations which they possess; and, moreover, there will be given biographical sketches of the persons in the work...
...developing and discovering new fields for work. The foundations on which it is built lie far back in the mist of ages, and speculation, to a certain extent, is the guide to our results. It is therefore interesting to find among our modern tongues a family of languages whose origin, growth, and development lie within human observation, even within the records of the past two thousand years...
...Williams Vidette is voluminous, but so much space is occupied by Book-notices, Exchanges, etc., that little is left for original matter. That little, however, is good. The following is a specimen of its wit: "The Professor of Geology told the Seniors, in a lecture, that during the Triassic age, huge batrachian, frog-like animals, as large as cows, infested the earth. One of the class wishes to know if that was the origin of bull-frogs...
...tutors and professors are not exempted from nicknames, which are supposed to be more appropriate than the ones with which they were christened. Nearly every man in college has some word given him by his classmates which fits him better than it would any one else, generally taking its origin from some real or imagined foible. If he inclines to excessive eating, he may be dubbed "knight of the carving-knife," and for short, "knight." Does he manifest a tendency for long calls and annoying affection for your cigarettes, his sobriquet will be "Fig"; if he persists, "the Fig." These...